Pleasure to join BBC Breakfast to talk about the chaos happening in British universities at the moment.

“I’d rather have a degree than UCEA’s thoughts and wishes” 👇🏼

What’s that? The BOLD and PEOPLE ORIENTATED University of Strathclyde want #PhD students to deliver modules? And to break the MAB.

AND NOT PAY THEM?

No cool #StrathLife bosses. Not cool.

#ucuRISING
#EnoughIsEnough
#phdlife
#RateLimitedExceeded

UPDATE: How do I prove to employers that I have completed 4 years at university?

I have to send them this letter. I wonder how this compares against applicants who have received degrees 🤔

The University of Edinburgh’s unwillingness to solve this is crushing our prospects - it’s a scandal.

Particularly shabby treatment of exam regs, standards, and students by the University of Nottingham ⬇️

Marking standards for UG dissertations strongly impacted by UCEA failure to negotiate.

My employer SOAS University of London stole my wages again, but even more this month. This time deductions do include some strike days, but most of what they call 'strike' is a marking boycott; I did research, writing, admin, email, meetings w/ staff and students, at least 95% of my job #ShameOnSOAS

First scabbed module marks coming in and they are absolutely inconsistent as expected. Students: map your marks against former assessments, check your feedback against criteria and complain that there are irregularities in the assessment process - ie not marked by module tutor.

I HAVE FEEDBACK ON MY 8 THOUSAND WORD DISSERTATION! Oh, wait. No, I have 100 words of vague waffle. Whoever marked this didn't approve of the title that my supervisor told me not to change. This is an insult to me and my supervisor and I am in shock

In a communication to senior members today in the School of English, Faculty AHC, University of Leeds individual colleagues were identified as UCU members.

Testing out some placards for the march and demo!

Join us on Saturday 10th June, 11am. The Level, #Brighton

🪧94% have no confidence. Debra out!

🪧Stop the redundancies. #SaveBrightonUni

Solidarity

Really pleased to see pledges continuing to roll in for our salary sharing scheme! If you're a member of @SheffieldUni staff not expecting deductions and haven't yet signed up to the pledge, do it now! docs.google.com/forms/d/1f_sxm…

🚨 STOP FIRE AND REHIRE REDUNDANCIES AT UCL 🚨

@UCL and Bidvest Noonan have told outsourced security guards that they will all be fired-and-rehired on worse conditions, with 40 guards made redundant.

🧵 A thread on what's happening and how you can help

actionnetwork.org/fundraising/uc…

Staff QUB - School of Psychology protesting at being silenced, by being refused entry to the exam board that they co-constitute UCU at Queen's Apparently differences of opinion constitutes ‘conflict of interest’ and will not be tolerated. Very disappointing, Queen's University Belfast 🎓

The incompetence from sector leaders is staggering. This would be like in the recent Birmingham bus strike if instead of resolving the dispute the bosses had randomly turned up to bus stops & encouraged people waiting to imagine being on a bus.

As a former Chair of the Geography Sub-board of Examiners RHULGeography I have serious concerns with the proposed emergency regulations and was happy to sign alongside my colleagues and our finalists.

Many dissertations are also allegedly being marked by volunteers rather than supervisors.

Simply unfair for final-year students who have worked so hard on their dissertations.
Bristol UCU

thetab.com/uk/bristol/202…

Good lord. So I find out that after 4 years, my graduation grade will be *provisional* because all my work won’t be marked - via The Tab, NOT via any official uni comms.

I wonder when The University of Edinburgh were planning to tell us. The incompetency and disrespect is astonishing. 🤯

Almost 200 students have signed this already!! 😍 If you teach at UCL please consider sharing the letter with your students – thanks! UCL-UCU Stop the Destruction of Higher Education UCU
#SettleTheDispute